An exploration of interventions for severe eating disorders V1.0
Research type
Research Study
Full title
An exploration of crisis interventions for people with Severe and Enduring Eating Disorders (SEED) from the perspectives of service users and clinical staff.
IRAS ID
185703
Contact name
Mary Chambers
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
St George's University of London
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 15 days
Research summary
The study will be conducted at a single site NHS eating disorders department, all participants (staff and service users) will be affiliated with this department. The study explores the experiences of eating disorders (ED) service users, with a diagnosis of severe and enduring anorexia nervosa (SE-AN) and will gather the opinions of clinical staff responsible for their care. Service users will be interviewed 1-2-1 about their experiences of treatment, investigating what has been useful at the most challenging moments (crisis points). The clinical staff will be invited to take part in focus groups to discuss interventions for service users during a crisis phase. The project will identify both helpful and unhelpful interventions. The benefits of the study may include further insight into a complex illness that currently has a relatively small knowledge base.
Adult service users whom have been assessed as medically stable, with a diagnosis of severe and enduring anorexia nervosa, and have experiences of inpatient or day care treatment are eligible for the study. Clinical staff members with over two years of experience working with the service user sample are also eligible for the focus group part of the study.
Service users who meet the inclusion criteria will be given patient information sheets by their clinicians at their next clinical appointment, it is then the choice of the service user, if they wish to contact the researcher. Staff will be recruited by poster and short presentation; contacting the researcher only if they are interested. The potential participants will be required to meet with the researcher to ask any questions they may have and to go through the informed consent procedure. The second meeting with the researcher would be the interview or focus group, which will happen as soon as possible after informed consent has been taken.
REC name
London - Dulwich Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/LO/0438
Date of REC Opinion
30 Mar 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion